Area Obituaries

Dateline-Clinton, S.C. Lonnie R. Allen, age 70, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 at the Floyd Medical Center in Rome, Ga. He was born in Clinton, S.C., and was a son of the late Alfred and Vivian Medlock Allen. Surviving are a son, David Neal Allen of Georgia, two brothers, David Allen of Acworth, Ga.,…

Larry Joe Barker, 70, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 17, 2018, at his home in Clinton, S.C. He was born in Clinton to Rudolph and Annie Ruth Barker. He graduated from Clinton High School, at which time he joined the US Navy and served aboard the USS Prairie. He was preceded in death by…

Dateline – Clinton, SC Robert M. (Mike) Turner died at Hospice of Laurens County on Saturday, December 15, 2018. Born June 24, 1926, he was the son of Inez and Ed Jones of Augusta, Georgia. A World War II Veteran, he served as a signal man in the U. S. Navy. Mike was co-founder of…

Laurens, S.C. On the morning of December 13, 2018, William Hart Adams,  affectionately called “Willie Hart” or “Bill,” died in Laurens, S.C.  It was here that he was born in 1936 in a little house on College Street to a loving family, and it was here in Laurens that he built his life and raised…

Dateline – Laurens, S.C. David Wayne Owens, age 64, finished his race on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at his home. He was born on October 4, 1954 in Greenville County and was a son of the late Pete Owens and Pearl Pittman Avery, and his step-father, Joseph Avery. He attended Clinton School and was a…

Laurens, S.C. Caroline Bagwell, age 78, resident of Carolina Gardens at Laurens, passed away on Saturday, December 8, 2018, at Laurens County Memorial Hospital. Born in Laurens County, she was the daughter of the late Mable Evelyn Taylor Bagwell. Caroline was a long-time member of the Bell Federation Center of the Blind and was a…

Dateline – Joanna, S.C. George Edward Marshall Sr., age 70, of 525 Browning Ave. passed away Friday, December 7, 2018 at his home. He was born in Joanna, S.C., and was a son of the late Hick and Jeanette Marshall. Mr. Marshall was a former employee of Greenwood Mills, Clinton Mills and BMW. He was…

Laurens, S.C. April Michelle Raines, 40, of Summercrest Apartments passed away Sunday, December 2, 2018, at her home. Born in Hinesville, Ga., she was the daughter of James Raines of Greenwood and Pamela Stevens Cole and husband Michael of Laurens. April was employed at Ceramtec and was of the Baptist faith. Surviving in addition to…

Waterloo, S.C. Jerry Lee “Jody Pole” Roberts, Jr., 51, of 2063 Dillard Road and husband of Brenda Ann Tucker Roberts passed away Saturday, December 1, 2018, at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Born in Clinton, S.C., he was a son of Jerry Lee Roberts, Sr. and wife Sheila Roberts of Waterloo and the late Mildred Diane Bass…

Dateline – Whitmire, S.C. Randall Scott Frye, 55, of Laurens, S.C., passed away peacefully on November 30, 2018, at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Randall was born at Wallace Thomson Hospital to Eleanor and Oscar Frye on January 14, 1963. He went to Whitmire High School and graduated in the class of 1981. He graduated from Winthrop College…